Parmenter Missions - April 2008

SHARING THE CROWN OF LIFE

Parmenters and the Mission to the Czech Republic

UPDATE

(adam@parmenterclan.com)

In March, time seemed to stand still or perhaps evaporate, and suddenly it's half way through April. As I've written earlier, in March, Marge's father, Henry Blunier, died and passed on to eternal life with Jesus Christ our Lord. Marge has been healing emotionally as has the rest of the family.

Then mid March my father, Allen Parmenter, was getting treatment for a leg ulcer and leg pain. The pain medication made him dizzy and he fell and hit his head resulting in a head injury. I was there for two weeks at their winter Arizona home to help get him out of the nursing home and deal with some serious patient care issues. I'm happy to say that mom and dad are now in their summer home in LaGrange, IN and dad is receiving care in their home. It will take several months of recovery for both the leg wound and the head injury. Right now family and paid helpers are providing 24X7 assistance. Marge and I are going there tonight (Friday) to stay over night.

Please pray that my parents will not only be able to focus on dad's recovery, but that they can enjoy their time with each other.

On The Road

We had the privilege of sharing in the ministry at East Arlington Baptist Church in Lawrence, MI on April 13th in both Adult Sunday school and the morning service. We shared our testimonies, the spiritual condition of the Czech Republic and our desire to share the gospel in the Czech Republic.

ONLINE

Each week I try to post up something new at http://www.sharethecrown.com/. One new item is ShareTheCrown "Radio". We will regularly add new material, hopefully each month. Click here to listen.

God is Kind To Us

Even with the two week break in support raising, our support level went up to 17%. We are grateful.

If you aren't already part of our financial support team, we want you to join. Please send me an e-mail if you would like more information on how to be one of our financial supporters.

More important than the money, is our need for a team of people to join us in taking time each week to pray for us. This past weekend, two more couples joined our prayer team. We are excited to have the additional support. If you aren't already part of it, and are willing to take some time each each week to pray for us, please send me an e-mail. I'll add you to our prayer watch.

THE CZECH REPUBLIC - "Is Jesus Accepted in the Czech Republic?"

That was the question posted to a Czech message board. I have permission to post the response of an individual with the screen name of "eso".

This is my favorite topic, so I will answer with long post:

"Czech republic has very big number of atheists (or agnostics or somethingism). In 2001 census was all citizens of Czech republic asked about religion (and many other things) and 6,039,991 citizens (59 %) responded "no religion". Czech republic is often considered as most atheistic/secular country in the world and many Czechs are proud of it."

For the full article visit the Journey to Missions Blog. My thanks to eso for letting me reprint his posting. It is informative and interesting.

GIVING THANKS

• Safe travel around West Michigan.
• We are thankful that my dad is home

PLEASE PRAY

• That I'll be able to set up a full schedule of church visits so that we can share the exciting news that God is beginning to work in the hearts of Czech people.
• We will put our house up for sale when the children start summer break. We don't expect to make much, because of the housing market. Pray that we will make enough to cover our financial obligations.
• As always, please pray that each day our focus will be on Christ and that we would each have a desire to know and please Him.

PRE-FIELD PREPARATIONS

Speaking engagements:

*20-April Bethel Baptist Church, Kalamazoo, MI -- Morning Service

30-April Heritage Academy - Chapel

Financial Support

Currently we are at about 17.30% of our required $6,638.33 monthly financial support and 12.52% of our Outfit and Passage support.

Send checks to:

ATTN: Parmenter Support #013408

ABWE, P.O. Box 8585, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8585

Remember to mark it as monthly support if you plan to give each month.

Thanks for taking the time to read and pray for us.

Kind regards,

Adam, Marge & the Kids

1512 Bank Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49001

Cell (269) 762-2202

Home (269) 373-5402

e-mail: parmenters@abwe.cc

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